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Tue, 06/21/2022 - 12:00

Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Casey Dawkins was quoted in a Washington Post story on trailer parks, one of the country’s biggest sources of affordable housing, and what is behind rising rents. “Land prices are going up, housing costs are going up and that’s spilling into mobile homes,” he ...

Tue, 06/21/2022 - 12:00

Associate Research Professor Dennis Pogue and his decades-long work to preserve the dwellings of Virginia’s enslaved was featured in a story about a Black family tracing its origin story to a plantation they purchased on CBS’s 60 Minutes. “We start from the idea that these places matter.” Watch the ...

Thu, 06/16/2022 - 12:00

The overgrown lot in the small town of North Brentwood, Md. is easy to miss for the thousands of commuters who pass it daily on Rhode Island Avenue heading to and from Washington, D.C. But just under its weedy surface lies a remarkable story waiting to be unearthed—one told through amber glass and 1...

Wed, 05/25/2022 - 12:00

Lindsey May, a clinical assistant professor of architecture and assistant director of the architecture program, has been named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Strategic Initiatives for the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. May will oversee several pri...

Sun, 05/22/2022 - 12:00

Each semester, students from MAPP+D’s Master of Architecture, Master of Historic Preservation and Master of Real Estate Development Programs conceive one final project that culminates their graduate experience at the University of Maryland. Self-selected and often personal, topics address the challe...

Fri, 05/20/2022 - 12:00

For decades, the streets of Baltimore’s Broadway East neighborhood told the story of a community disappearing. Blocks of abandoned rowhouses illustrated the systemic disinvestment, growing crime and abject poverty tearing at the fabric of so many of Baltimore’s neighborhoods. But at a community meet...